SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 79 59 61
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.04% 9.72% 5.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.29% 31.72% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 46 42
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £391 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -17.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £549 £480 £607
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -47.83%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 371 186 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.34% 30.64% 27.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 105 156
10th Percentile £363 £345 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £459
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -7.36% -0.27%
75th Percentile £551 £523 £550
90th Percentile £624 £636 £631
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 32 92
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.33 £52.75
25th Percentile - £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.19 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.88 £77.95
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.06%) Apache
2 4 (5.06%) Confluence
3 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (12.66%) NEC Housing
2 4 (5.06%) Maximo
3 1 (1.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 24 (30.38%) Azure
2 13 (16.46%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (15.19%) Power Platform
4 10 (12.66%) AWS
5 8 (10.13%) GCP
6 6 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.59%) GitHub
6 6 (7.59%) Snowflake
7 5 (6.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Functions
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Storage
8 4 (5.06%) Serverless
9 3 (3.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.53%) dbt
10 2 (2.53%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (2.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) DNS
2 4 (5.06%) WAN
3 3 (3.80%) Firewall
4 2 (2.53%) 3GPP
4 2 (2.53%) 4G
4 2 (2.53%) 5G
4 2 (2.53%) 5G NR
4 2 (2.53%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.53%) LTE
4 2 (2.53%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (2.53%) MPLS
4 2 (2.53%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.53%) VoLTE
4 2 (2.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.92%) Power BI
2 8 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.59%) Data Lake
3 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.33%) Delta Lake
4 5 (6.33%) RDBMS
5 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.80%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.80%) Star Schema
6 3 (3.80%) Tableau
7 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.53%) Metadata
7 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.27%) Big Data
8 1 (1.27%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.27%) Power Query
8 1 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Git
2 6 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.06%) JIRA
3 4 (5.06%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.27%) GitLab
General
1 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Finance
3 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.86%) Local Government
5 3 (3.80%) Marketing
6 1 (1.27%) Billing
6 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (22.78%) Data Engineer
2 13 (16.46%) Senior
3 12 (15.19%) Analyst
3 12 (15.19%) Developer
4 8 (10.13%) Applications Support
5 7 (8.86%) Support Officer
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Applications Support
7 5 (6.33%) Application Security Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Architect
7 5 (6.33%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Security Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Integration Manager
8 4 (5.06%) SQL Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) REST
2 5 (6.33%) JSON
2 5 (6.33%) SOAP
3 4 (5.06%) JDBC
3 4 (5.06%) Middleware
3 4 (5.06%) RESTful
3 4 (5.06%) XML
4 3 (3.80%) Kafka
4 3 (3.80%) PySpark
4 3 (3.80%) Web Services
5 2 (2.53%) .NET
5 2 (2.53%) JAX-RS
5 2 (2.53%) OAuth
5 2 (2.53%) Pandas
5 2 (2.53%) React
5 2 (2.53%) Spring
5 2 (2.53%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.27%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.27%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.27%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.86%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.59%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Windows
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.85%) Analytics
2 20 (25.32%) Data Modelling
3 19 (24.05%) Data Engineering
4 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (20.25%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (20.25%) Decision-Making
6 14 (17.72%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (16.46%) Agile
7 13 (16.46%) DevOps
8 12 (15.19%) Data Security
9 11 (13.92%) CI/CD
10 10 (12.66%) ETL
11 9 (11.39%) Validation
12 8 (10.13%) Application Security
12 8 (10.13%) Data Governance
12 8 (10.13%) Roadmaps
13 7 (8.86%) AI
13 7 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (8.86%) Data Science
14 6 (7.59%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.11%) Python
2 8 (10.13%) Java
3 4 (5.06%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.53%) C
5 2 (2.53%) C#
5 2 (2.53%) Go
5 2 (2.53%) R
6 1 (1.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (31.65%) Data Quality
2 13 (16.46%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Terraform
2 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
4 1 (1.27%) CASB
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.19%) Databricks
3 10 (12.66%) NEC
4 8 (10.13%) Oracle
5 4 (5.06%) Google
5 4 (5.06%) webMethods
6 3 (3.80%) IBM
7 2 (2.53%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.53%) SAP
8 1 (1.27%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.27%) Braze